Firstly - new layout courtesy of StudioLoftMedia's Journal skin! What do you think? Easier to read? Harder? No change? Thoughts and feedback appreciated!

I suppose one of the most intriguing news stories the past few weeks has been the announcement by some Restaurants in the USA that they will be banning food Photography! Some claim that it's because of the flashes going off in restaurants and spoiling the mood for other customers. Others are angry that some professional photographers are making money or getting a name for themselves by sharing images of food that someone else has 'arranged.' And then there are the few that don't like the instagram snaps floating around that don't show their dishes in the best light. But what are your thoughts on the matter? One way of getting around the lack of being able to take a photo of your dinner is that some establishments are going to allow guests to photograph their food before it leaves the kitchen...discuss! Full article here.

Firstly, the exciting news is that we now have a Conceptual Community Volunteer! Stepping into the awesome shoes that DemonMathiel left behind is astridle! So send your suggestions to her!

Check out the beautiful Tilt Shift Photography feature from dekorAdum. Have you tried tilt shift or explored the art here on dA? It's well worth a look! Adam has also put together a General Photography DD feature too. A member of our Photography community here on deviantART has had a book published. xMEGALOPOLISx has published a book of Photography - read more about that here. Also within the Photography galleries 3wyl has been busy as usual and has writtenAll snapped up! and To be seen. Both are articles featuring photographers here on deviantart! Our usual DD roundups have been published for the month. Check out mine here and 3wyl's here.

Tutorials wise, we've brought a couple of troubleshooting articles to you the past few weeks. The first was particularly useful for those UK based deviants who experienced all the snow last week! Check out How to Photograph Snow for some hints and tips. Then we summarised this years (and a few of the latter part of last years) camera phone releases to see what's best for which. Check that out here. A final troubleshooting article that we released is also really useful and focuses on Capturing Landscapes.

Wednesday 6th February:Photography Games Night with Kaz-D + 3wyl in #CommunityRelations. Bring your camera, bring your inspiration and come along for the chance to win some fantastic prizes! Starts at 12 PM PST—check your local time here.

Wednesday 6th March:Photography Games Night with Kaz-D + 3wyl in #CommunityRelations. Bring your camera, bring your inspiration and come along for the chance to win some fantastic prizes! Starts at 12 PM PST—check your local time here.

Wednesday 3rd April:Photography Games Night with Kaz-D + 3wyl in #CommunityRelations. Bring your camera, bring your inspiration and come along for the chance to win some fantastic prizes! Starts at 12 PM PST—check your local time here.

Most well known for her Fashion Photography, Merry also has some fantastic landscape shots within her gallery that really caught my eye this week. Thus she's the featured Photographer and also proof that us volunteers don't just showcase you loads of work within the galleries that we're looking after!!

I recently joined PhotographLove as an admin thanks to a kind invite from the founder. The group is one of the hottest photography groups on dA with a member base of over 24,000. It's well worth heading over and checking it out as the group is being revamped with lots of new things coming your way.

The past few weeks have been filled with lots of articles exploring all sorts of topics as part of our regular Community Weeks - with 2013 in full swing the team over at PE are working on bringing you some brand new features and keeping the group ticking over for another fantastic year. If you fancy getting involved just shoot the group a note! Check out the roundups from the past two weeks!

Photography month has drawn to a close and with it lots of valuable information has been shared into the History of this fantastic art form. Flash & Animation month kicks in now, so head on over for lots of fantastic articles and check out the roundup of Photography month below!

Since the last update, arctoa has worked hard to feature a variety of Daily Deviations in the genre, and his January Daily Deviation Report is available here. His Friday Feature of recent discoveries has two more editions, with Issue 008, and Issue 009 now online. Finally, his well-received Saturday Spotlight artist interviews continue: Volume 008 with Megalithicmatt and Volume 009 with PsycheAnamnesis being the latest showcase instalments.

Have you been confused when categorising your Darkroom submissions? Or perhaps just when you're browsing you've noticed something that seems to be in the wrong place? Well RockstarVanity has written a fantastic article explaining the differences between Darkroom Traditional and Darkroom Digital.

Fashion This Week is out once more and focuses on some of the more recent submissions to the Fashion Photography gallery! This week I wanted to highlight a fantastic Fashion Photographer here on deviantART - if you're looking for some Fashion inspiration and work to aspire to then check out :devkylegavin:!

I stumbled across some beautiful macro shots this week in an article about a Macro Underwater Photographer who captures the unseen beauty of Corals. Serdar-T is a fantastic Macro Photographer worth checking out this week if you want to browse some Macro Galleries here on deviantART. Simplistic beauty combines with subtle lighting and blur to create beautiful close ups of interesting flowers.

3wyl has written a Still Life Photography Article which explores the art form and helps explain it a bit more. The Recipe challenge winners for last month have been announced and the new recipe challenge is up today so head over and take a peek! The past few weeks, we've done a Breakfast Feature and a Sweetie Feature! Our next challenge and last months winners will be announced today so be sure to watch the group!

The Street Photography position is still open over at communityrelations so if you're interested why not consider heading over and getting an application in now? StamatisGR has put together Friday Night Specials once again featuring some fantastic artists from within the Street Photography galleries. StamatisGR is also running the Street Photography Challenges and you can check out more info on the eighth here.

This previous has month has seen an increase and a variation in Urban and Rural Photography Daily Deviations from us both. Don't forget that you can suggest anything within the Urban and Rural Galleries to 3wyl and I. We've also put together a few more urbex articles. The latest one focuses on an exploration of The Shard in London - read more about that here.

Photography Resources

This one is costly (a little) this edition, but it's worth it if you want the sort of information that it offers you. It's an App called Focalware and is £2.99 currently on iTunes. If you want to know the exact position of the sun and moon at any location, any day, any time, then the focalware app is a fantastic solution. It helps with calculating the path and height of the sun and moon and allows you to determine where light and shadows will fall. Even if you don't need it for Photography, it's a pretty handy thing to geek out over!

Another resource with the anti-instagrammers of you out there will absolutely loathe, is Pixlr-o-matic for iphone. Thanks to DpressedSoul for bringing it to my attention! It boasts over 2 million combinations to make your photographs better, how can you NOT want it?! Check it out and have a play, share the results if you have some!

ScENeYmE is taking us Back to Basics with some excellent Photography based articles giving tips and information about the basics of composition.

There's so much going on around the community especially for Volunteers that sometimes the awesome news can be missed out. I hope to share any weekly or monthly features that are ongoing here so that you can browse them at your leisure. If you know of something that needs to be listed let me know!

You can get yourself into Photography Weekly just by sending me a note! Each week I look for: Spotlight Deviants Underappreciated Deviants Spotlight Groups Photography related news Themes +Topics Featured Tutorials

What are your thoughts on the latest news circulating about restaurants in the USA that want to ban people photographing their food? How do you like (or not like) the new layout of Photography Fortnightly? Read about a deviant that has recently had a book of photography published, find out which contests are hot this month and read about each of your favourite Photography areas of deviantART and the latest news! After you've done all that - don't forget to !!!!

Are the restaurants who are claiming that it's because of flash banning all photography or just banning people photographing the food? Because plenty of people take photos of their friends and so on that they're having dinner with. Everyone crowding round for a group photo, with one person standing up (in the way of the waiters) taking the same photo with five different cameras... that seems way more disruptive to me than someone in their seat quickly snapping a shot of their dinner before they eat it!

I read the article you linked to and one person said There’s no way you’re going to take a beautiful shot of food in a dimly-lit restaurant, which seems a valid point, and much more credible than the previous reason. The counter-argument would of course be that if ALL the photos of food are ugly, then it's not really very likely to put people off.

I'm far too shy to ever consider taking food photography in public anyway. If i was a chef I probably would not be happy about other people claiming credit kind of thing for their food in the form of photography after spending so much time and effort on it as most of the time the place of photography is not credited.

Looks like I did a pretty good job of writing my piece in the third person.

An excellent compendium of information, once again. The new layout looks good overall, although the blue clashes a little with the red in the headers.

As for restaurants banning people from taking photographs of their food, it's an inevitable act of suppression in the same vein that's seen photographers unable, legally, to photograph anywhere without express permission.

I have a tendency to waffle on a little, so it's a case of infinite scolling vs. legibility.

Additionally, it's something I've always done and breaking habit like that is entirely against my mental make-up, which is probably the actual deep-rooted reason. Once I start with some sort of pattern or routine it's very difficult for me to break it.

It makes a huge difference going from weekly to bi-weekly. I remember how long it took me to do the monthly holidays/awareness/celebrations and I easily spent three days on it, so it must take you quite a bit of time to put together such an intensive journal!

First, a few more great things I noticed The font choice for the titles and body text are good, but not exceptionally unique. Maybe that's what you were going for, though: something people are used to seeing.

Also, the tags and comment tabs at the bottom are great, as well as the rounded corners. Those look very natural and aesthetically pleasing.

As one more thing (maybe this is a custom choice), there isn't a tab at the very bottom. Would it have replaced the title image in this case, and/or are these custom to the journal writer?